The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, " Genevieve worried. "What would I tell them?""Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, " said Bloom.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don’t love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.

Even a heart of a kitten is reliable, if you know how to rely on

The future is shaped by young people foolish enough to believe they can topple a mountain. And yet, when we stand among the rubble, we wonder why no one tried sooner.

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.